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This gives China the unprecedented – for a large trading country – ability to accumulate foreign-exchange reserves (now approaching $3 trillion).
At the time, the Dow Jones industrial average of US stocks was trading at around 11,000, so the book’s premise seemed outrageous.
The resulting systemic cracks could jeopardize the entire rules-based multilateral trading system at a time when there is no good alternative.
Indeed, Macri has announced that, in response to human rights violations in Venezuela, he will invoke the so-called “democratic clause” in the statutes of Mercosur, which could lead to Venezuela’s suspension from the regional trading bloc.
Nigeria is India’s largest trading partner in Africa.
What he would do is trigger retaliation from major trading partners, such as China, causing serious harm to the entire global economy – beginning with the US.
Some blame an unfair world trading system, in which wealthy nations knock down all trade barriers except their own.
Kaufman scored an even bigger coup with his warnings about the dangers of the explosive growth of high-frequency trading, which is little understood by America’s main financial watchdog, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and poses systemic market risk.
His concerns appear to have been vindicated by the 20-minute shutdown of trading in New York on May 6, when the stock market completely failed in its most basic function: price discovery between buyers and sellers.
We do not yet know what combination of black-box computer programs and electronic trading algorithms, interacting across more than 50 market centers, caused this catastrophe.
As Senator Mark Warner graciously acknowledged, “The Senator from Delaware sounded an early warning signal that the massive amounts of investments that had been made by certain firms to try to get what appears to be a fractional millisecond advantage in the trading process might come back and haunt us all...I’ve been proud to follow his lead.”
Still, it has strengthened backing for another amendment, sponsored by Senators Jeff Merkley and Carl Levin, which would restrict proprietary trading by megabanks for their own account – coincidentally a practice that is presumed to be a large and “dark” part of high-speed trading.
When the government tried to rein in the market last summer, it inadvertently triggered a large-scale sell-off, which quickly turned into a rout, largely because of those same financial innovations (for example, margin trading).
But they attribute this to market psychology and irrational trading, not to the attempts of currency traders to interpret changing macroeconomic fundamentals.
This implies that intervention is not only unnecessary; it is ineffective: Faced with wide swings and trading volumes of $2 trillion per day, central banks are helpless to counteract traders’ irrational zeal.
What is irrational about factoring in such fundamentals when trading a currency?
Given massive trading volumes, direct intervention can alter supply and demand for currencies only on the margin.
Today, many traders see formerly inept state giants as financial geniuses, capable of taming complex financial formulas and exploiting their superior size and trading information to squeeze the life out of currency and interest rate markets.
Although few accuse Asian central banks of explicitly conspiring to calm global markets, some say that their common cautious approach to trading is a form of implicit collusion.
The second conclusion is that the gross gains – fees, trading profits, and capital gains to the winners (perhaps $800 billion from this year’s M&A’s) – greatly exceed the perhaps $170 billion in net gains.
Second, and partly as a consequence, virtually all eurozone countries’ debt is trading at a discount relative to German Bunds.
In a multilateral trading system, large bilateral trade deficits are often balanced by bilateral surpluses with other countries.
Oil prices stabilized after a somewhat temporary overshoot, trading increasingly robustly for a while on the back of two conventional market reactions.
China has an attractive market and is many countries’ largest trading partner – important sources of leverage that China’s leaders are not afraid to wield.
Moreover, as Chinese officials and researchers have acknowledged, though China surpassed Germany in 2009 as the world’s largest exporter by volume, it has yet to develop into a truly “strong” trading country, owing to lackluster trade in services and low value-added production.
At the same time, regulation and taxation should be used to rein in disruptive day trading and other exploitative speculation that crowds out sustainable investment and disrupts regular business activities.
China has become every other Asian country’s largest trading partner, inexorably gaining strategic leverage as a result.
Obama and his advisers had hoped that, by creating a new US-centered trading bloc, the TPP would counter China’s clout and preserve American military and economic primacy in the world’s most dynamic region.
These new additions, and the formation of a new regional trading bloc, could partly fill the void left by America’s withdrawal.
For example, the US is far and away Ecuador’s largest trading partner, accounting for more than a third of its foreign trade.
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